h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

The headline looked somewhat promising - the article said . . . nothing at all?

"How to be clever: eat lots of beans and avoid football"

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1494942,00.html


How do these people get jobs? And get paid sh*tloads of money to come up with stuff like this? The mind reels . . .


azahar

...well, it's because people still buy the grauniad az.

People still read it for some unknown reason, probably expecting news.


alec.

az

I'm sure people put a lot of work into examining the things reported, such as "how sleep affects intelligence". But all the reporter seems to have done is to read an article in the New Scientist and re-write it.

I think I should aim for being a science reporter. There must be a real need for them. All newspapers ever do is copy New Scientist, imagine what a typo there could do. You'd have newspapers all over the world talking about how Dolly the sheep has been clowned.

Well, apparently there is a difference between a science editor and a science writer?

The science editor apparently copies and pastes stuff willy-nilly from other sources and then quotes a supposed 'science writer' to 'round up' the article with - "If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't."

Huh? Grammar?

az